The comfy chair v the torture chamber
Posted: 09/02/12 04:40 | 2 Comments
OCA assessor Jim Unsworth reflects on the prosaic object, the chair. When is a chair not a chair? OCA level 3 student Margaret Hargreaves poses the question…
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Blog of the week – Krystina Robertson
Posted: 08/02/12 12:35 | 7 Comments
Krystina Robertson is a bit ambitious. She’s enrolled on three level one courses: drawing, painting and sculpture. However, when you see her blog you will note that she came to the OCA with a kit bag of skills and experiences, including the ability to make a very lively blog, which is brimming with details of […]
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Taking a step into the ordinary
Posted: 06/02/12 04:41 | 10 Comments
OCA level one painting student, Paul Yelland, has developed a consistent range of evocative images that carry the viewer into the space he has painted in a very particular way. Have a look at this:
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Student Work Uncovered – Stuart McQuade
Posted: 04/02/12 06:13 | 9 Comments
OCA tutor and assessor Jesse Alexander discusses the work of photography student Stuart McQuade for the course Digital Photographic Practice.
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Assignment of the week!
Posted: 02/02/12 11:54 | 11 Comments
In a variation on the Blog of the Week theme, I am grateful to tutor Alan Byrne for drawing our attention to this assignment for the level one course The Art of Photography by Roukay Mahajar. The assignment, Elements of Design, asks students to produce a series of images of a similar subject which respond […]
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Student Work Uncovered – Penny Watson
Posted: 31/01/12 06:02 | 23 Comments
OCA Assessors Maggy Milner and Clive White discuss the book ‘Not Our Time’ by Social Documentary student Penny Watson.
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Sketchbooks, a learning log and a beautiful painting …
Posted: 23/01/12 03:52 | 32 Comments
OCA student Lucie Bromfield recently completed a level 2 OCA painting course and submitted a suite of work that demonstrated such thoughtfulness and integrity that we just had to review it for the blog. Lucie’s mark reflected what the assessors felt about the work, and here, OCA tutor and assessor, Emma Drye, reviews the work.
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Blog of the week: Nigel Roberson
Posted: 18/01/12 08:10 | 17 Comments
This week we are featuring Nigel Roberson‘s learning blog for his Photography 2: Landscape course. It is an exemplary example of a carefully structured reflective learning log, showing clearly how Nigel has developed his work, selecting ideas, rejecting others and drawing on his research reading. Fabulous.
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Untitled Post
Posted: 17/01/12 02:25 | 7 Comments
It is becoming increasingly hard to keep track of all the things OCA students are doing, with growing numbers blogging their learning logs, setting up informal meetings, etc, but this is something special. Student Penny Rowe has got together with fellow students to launch an online exhibition. Called ‘Untitled’, it is just fabulous, take a […]
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Night Music
Posted: 16/01/12 05:21 | 5 Comments
This post features music composed by Edinburgh based music student Jamie Dunnett. He writes as follows. “Night Music was written specifically for OCA tutor and professional flautist Carla Rees to play at the composition workshop in November 2011. The brief was to write a piece, up to 3 minutes long, for unaccompanied flute. “The workshop […]
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